rajah
ra·jah/ˈɹɑː.d͡ʒə/noun
rajah is a noun meaning “A Hindu prince or ruler in India” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-J-A-H and has 2 syllables (ra·jah), and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rajah is rajahs.
What does rajah mean?
noun
- 1
A Hindu prince or ruler in India.
- 2
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Charaxes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce rajah?
- /ˈɹɑː.d͡ʒə/
- /ˈɹɑː.ʒə/
- /ˈɹaː.ha/
Rajah has 2 syllables, split ra·jah in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-rajah.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of rajah
- rajahs plural
- raja
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rajah?
Rajah appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,209th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with rajah
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: raja.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Rajah in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Hindu prince:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does rajah come from?
Borrowed from Hindi राजा (rājā) and Urdu راجا (rājā), from Sanskrit राजन् (rājan, “king, prince”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hrā́ȷ́ā (“king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrā́ȷ́ā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵ-ō, from *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Doublet of Rex, rex, and roy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).